When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost Quotes

“Love without respect is a lethal thing.”
― Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down

“The ENDANGEREDBLACKMAN is a creature black women have learned to love, but he is not one we respect.”
― Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down

“Myth became white folks way of making sense of us in the perversions of their institutions. According to their myth slavery was an act of benevolence bestowed on ungodly savages and primitives. And to those who knew and cared little about us or our prior histories, we became Mammies, Pickaninnies and Sambos- or oversexed, criminal, dangerous Niggers.”
― Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down

“We have come to a point in our history, however, when black- on-black love —A love that survived slavery, lynching, segregation, poverty and racism —is in serious danger”
― Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down

“How did we go from fly-girls to bitches and hos in our brothers eyes?”
― Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down